§ 6441 Write-In Presidential Candidate Filing

• •If you want people to write your name for President in the election, you must tell the government 21 days before the primary election.
• •If you don’t tell them in time, any votes written for you won’t count.
• •This rule is only for people running for President of the United States.

Imagine your friend Bob wants to be President, and people in your state might write his name on the ballot.

Bob must send a letter to the Secretary of State 21 days before the primary election saying, 'Yes, I want to be a write-in candidate.' If he doesn’t, even if 1,000 people write his name, none of those votes will be counted.